Disaster & Pop Culture/ Satire

Dozens in California are killed after a powerful Super Rainbow burns a trail of destruction across the state.

THIS year's Oscar nominees for best picture include four films based on true stories: "American Sniper" (about the sharpshooter Chris Kyle), "The Imitation Game" (about the British mathematician Alan Turing), "Selma" (about the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965) and "The Theory of Everything" (about the physicist Stephen Hawking).

Their recreations of the day have only grown more explicit and brazen with time.

Seismologist Lucile Jones discusses how accurate — or not — the plot of this new California earthquake thriller really is. Bonus: Her advice on what to include in an earthquake kit.

A resident of Los Angeles and a Bay Area-native discuss what it’s like watching their respective cities get demolished onscreen.

'The magnetic pulse rate is spiking!' SPOILERS, obviously.